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CB Eli Apple (All B1G, National Champion, Los Angeles Chargers)

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UpNorth_Buckeye said:
Would you consider putting doran on their second best receiver with no help all game and eli on cooper with help over top the entire game? And by all game I don't literally mean 100%, but majority of snaps.
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If Grant struggles one-on-one, then yes. Otherwise you just split support and also let the other safety take O.J. Howard out of the picture (their TE, who is pretty good).
 
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briegg said:
I noticed him quite a few times - he was really fired up. Not sure of the play you're thinking of, but the one that sticks out to me was when Gordon was bottled up running to the right, reversed field (I was like - crap, here he goes) and Apple came out of no where like a heat seeking missile with a perfect inside out tackle. When I saw it happen, I actually wondered what must be going through Gordon's head - those are the runs that have worked all year for him. He looked bewildered at the speed when he got up. Eli's gonna be a great one.
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I was sitting in the OSU section for the game, which on that play, happened to be behind the defense. Apple was sitting in great position in the middle of the field, probably 5 to 10 yards off the LOS (it was impossible to tell from 100 yards away). As soon as Gordon changed direction, Apple was running him down. He took a great angle at Gordon.
 
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http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...buckeyes-dominate-national-championship-42-20

"DID YOU SEE THAT?! (PLAY OF THE GAME)
The Ducks faced a third-and-goal with a chance to take the lead just five plays after Jones had the ball slip out of his hand for a turnover at his own 23. Oregon had all the momentum and was about to regain the lead when Mariota found Evan Baylis in the back of the end zone. Baylis made a leaping catch but before he came down, Eli Apple shoved him out over the back line and Baylis landed out of bounds for an incompletion. Oregon settled for a 23-yard field goal to pull within 21-20 and never scored again. Apple’s heads-up play kept the Buckeyes from falling behind and staved off the Ducks’ run."
 
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Another stand out from the 2013 class. The reps he got last year and early this year paid off! He had some early season bumps, but I can't wait to see him next year turn into another in OSU' line of shut down CBs
 
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Love Apple but not ready to put ANYONE in the Winfield tier

Was VERY impressed when Spielman revealed he expects Apple to be a Round One draftee
and BTW Spielman quoted that he felt Winfield was the best player that ever played for the Bucks

Does Eli ever smile? does anything excite him?
 
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Annie Apple @SurvivinAmerica · Mar 19

Every year Eli visits his fifth grade teacher... This year he surprised the kids. What a blast... #BuckeyeSpringBreak
 
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ELI APPLE MORE VOCAL, CONFIDENT AND PREPARED TO BE VETERAN IN OHIO STATE CORNERBACK ROOM

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Kerry Coombs is not a guy to sugarcoat anything. If you're good, you're good. If you're not, you're not. The man calls it as he sees it, one of the main reasons Urban Meyer loves having him at Ohio State.

The Buckeyes lost an All-Big Ten cornerback, Doran Grant, to graduation and the NFL following a national championship season in 2014. Any roster attrition challenges the depth of a college football team, something Coombs knows all too well. He's not shy about speaking to what Grant meant to the Buckeye cornerback room.

"Doran was a great leader in our room," Coombs said Tuesday. "He was a mature guy who had plenty of experience and the other guys looked up to him."

Grant's now trying to make his mark in Pittsburgh, a fourth round NFL Draft pick of the Steelers. The Buckeyes do return one starting cornerback from a year ago in Eli Apple, someone Coombs said he's already seen act as he should from a leadership standpoint even though he's a redshirt sophomore.

"Eli has stepped in and filled that role very, very well," Coombs said. "It’s different when you’re on the field. When I coach them, I give them lots of things, but when a guy who has been there in that stance and made those plays tells them something, it carries a lot of weight. Eli has that."

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...d-to-be-veteran-in-ohio-state-cornerback-room
 
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